Desk calendar



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J. L. PILKINGTON DESK 'CALENDAR Filed A9111 8. 1924 J2me J1. SLflz'mgbon @51 ame M4013 g Patented Nov. 25, 1924.

UNITED STATES JESSE L. PILKINGION, OF GLEN ROCK, NEW JERSEY.

DESK CALENDAR.

Application filed. April 8,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Jesse L. PILKINGTON, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Glen Rock, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Desk Calendars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in desk calendars, the principal object of the invention being to provide a calendar having means for flexibly holding a plurality of removable sheets or leaves in place, the organization being such that the individual sheets may be removed in their entirety, that is without leaving a stub while the remaining sheets are retained under tension until the last one is removed.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in the novel features of construction and combination of parts which will be more fully described hereinafter and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view, broken away, of a desk calendar embodying the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional View, broken away, taken approximately on the line II-II of Fig. 1, illustrating the relative positions of the parts when the calendar is provided with its full complement of sheets.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig, 2, but showing the relative position of the parts after a number of the sheets have been re moved.

Fig. 4 is a bottom view, broken away, of the supporting member or base, illustrating a preferred form of spring connection with the retaining members, and

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4, showing a modified form of spring connection.

The same characters of reference designate the same parts in the difierent figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a calendar pad made up as usual of a plurality of sheets, one for each day of the year, each of said sheets being provided near one end thereof with a pair of perforations adapted to permit the passage of a pair of retaining studs or posts 2 through the entire pad, the sheets being slit from the perforations to 1924. Seria1 No. 704,921.

the rear edge of the pad. The retaining posts 2 are carried by one flange of a follower member 3, which is preferably of L shape in cross section whereby one flange rests on top of the calendar pad while the other covers the rear end of the pad.

For supporting the calendar pad, I have provided a supporting member or base which is of the usual form, having side walls 4 of greater depth at the rear than at the front end so that the top wall or plate 5 1S normally in an inclined position. The plate 5 is provided near its rear end with a pair of perforations spacedapart the same distance as the retaining posts 2, so that when the follow up member and base are placed in the relative positions shown in Figs. 2 and 3 the studs 2 will be in alinement with the perforations in the base the studs being of suificientlength so that their lower ends project into the open space below the plate 5. For engaging the studs and thereby maintaining a certain amount of tension on the calendar sheets I have provided a pair of coil springs secured to the underside of the plate 5. The preferred form of engagement of the springs with the studs is shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4, in which the springs 6 are secured at their ends 7 and 8 t0 the base plate 5, the springs being united by a cross bar 9 formed integral with the springs. In this form, each of the studs 2 is provided adjacent, to its lower end with an inclined open slot forming a hook for engaging the cross bar 9, whereby the tension of the springs is exerted on the studs thus tending to resist upward movement of said studs. In the form shown in Fig. 5, the springs 6 are connected by a cross bar 9, which is secured to the plate 5, while the ends of the studs 2 are each provided with a perforation for receiving the ends 7 and 8 of the springs. It will thus be seen that in this form of the device the springs act separately and independently of each other.

It is believed that the operation of the device will be clear from the foregoing description taken in connection with the drawings. When the full calendar pad is in place, as shown in Fig. 2, the springs are tensioned so as to exert a downward pressure on the studs 2, whereby, as each succeeding sheet is removed the follower is flexibly maintained in contact with the remaining sheets as illustrated in Fig. 3.

For permitting ready removal of the top sheet of the pad, the studs 2 are each pro.- vided with a'groove 10 adjacent to its connection with the flange of the follower, and said flange is formed with a slight depression in line with each of the studs as indicated at 11. By reason of this construetion, sufficient pressure is exerted on the calendar pad to retain it firmly in place, while permitting the top sheet to be easily removed by pulling it in the direction of the arrow shown in Fig. 3, the slit rear end of the sheet permitting it to clear the studs with very little injury to the sheet. In this manner all of the sheets can be removed without leaving any stub. 7

While I have illustrated and described a pair of studs it isto be understood that a single stud and cooperating spring, or more than two may be employed. It will also be obvious thatthe studs might be carried by the base member and the springs by the follower if preferred, and that the invention is not limited to the precise details of construction herein shown, but that many mechanical changes and modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the claims appended hereto.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is: i

1. A device of the class d, prising, in combination, a base 'ne1nber, a

stud vertically movable in said base-member,

and means carried by said base member for engaging said stud and exerting downward pressure thereon. I

2. A device of the class described, comprising, in combination, a base member, a follower movable toward and from said member, a stud carried by said follower and movable in the base'member, and tension means carried-by said base member and crib'ed, combase member, a pair of studs carried by said follower, said base member having a pair of openings adapted to permit the passage of said studs, each of said studs being provided adjacent its end with a hook, and a pair of coil springs carried by the base member and adapted to engage the hooks of the studs thereby to urge the follower toward the base member.

5. A device of the class described, comprising, in combination, a base, a follower movable toward and from said base and carrying a pair of. studs guided in the base, means for urging the follower toward the base, a plurality of perforated sheets impaled on said studs between the base and follower, each of said studs being provided with an annular groove adjacent to its connection with the follower and said follower having a depression formed therein in intersecting relation with each of said studs thereby to permit ready removal of the uppermost sheet while retaining the remaining sheets in position.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this 4th day of April A. D. 1924.

' JESSE L. PILKINGTON. 

